No One Told Trevor He Was Hosting the Grammys

What Now? with Trevor Noah

SiriusXM & Day Zero Productions

News, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

Trevor, Grammy Executive Producer Ben Winston, and Trevor’s good friend Sizwe Dhlomo take us deep behind the scenes of music’s biggest night. The trio discusses the decision to hold the event against the backdrop of the L.A. fires, how a series of unrelated missed calls made Ben think Trevor was dropping out, Beyonce’s at long last first album of the year win, and the unique challenges of putting on a live television event with so many music superstars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is What Now with Trevor Noah.
0:12.1	How much time do we have with you?
0:17.5	I met as much you want.
0:18.5	Oh, yes.
0:19.6	Oh, yes.
0:21.0	Yeah. I was like, fuck it. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Yeah.
0:21.7	I was like, fuck it.
0:22.7	Let's go.
0:23.6	Do you want to start with the Kanye or should we?
0:28.4	Actually, I wanted to show you what I'm wearing underneath here.
0:32.0	Can you imagine?
0:33.0	That would have been really funny if I turned up in like a fur coat and nothing underneath.
0:37.1	It would have been a bit of a weird joke.
0:38.6	Actually, I actually do want to start with the Kanye.
0:40.9	So as the executive producer of the Grammys, do you, like, are you happy or are you pissed?
0:50.9	Or is there another emotion that comes with seeing Kanye West like pop up on the
0:55.7	Grammy's red carpets when he wasn't supposed to be there like is there like a thing that no because
1:00.2	on one hand it's good for the show in a way because everyone's like oh shit what's going to happen
1:04.2	oh you and on the other hand it's like you have a pre-planned thing like what's your first emotion
1:08.5	when that happens genuinely honestly yeah, honestly. Yeah, yeah.
1:16.8	I couldn't carry either way. Like, I was like, I think he's, like, he's not for me. Yeah.
1:22.7	And so, like, I was just like, oh, it's, you know, it's just what he does, right? He, he,
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